Tax Foundation reports Ohio is the 7th most taxed state, Ohio spending has skyrocketed and taxpayers are leaving the state

Last week the Tax Foundation issued a report, Ohio's Poor Tax Climate at the Heart of the State's Economic and Fiscal Woes. Three key findings in the report are:

  1. "Ohio has the 7th highest state and local combined tax burden in the nation with taxes consuming 10.4 percent of the state's income."

  2. "For more than 15 years, Ohio has seen more taxpayers leave the state than move into it... the state lost 231,000 taxpayers between 1993 and 2008, but more than 105,000 of those taxpayers left within the past five years."

  3. "During the same period, however, Ohio's state spending grew from $38 billion in 1993 to over $60 billion today..."

Click here to read or watch a slide-show of the entire report.